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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 270058" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>You need to be able to put your own life on hold, to homeschool. You need to feel relaxed about this too, not resentful (which is understandable, to feel that way). I just keep telling myself that I am investing my current time in his future.</p><p></p><p>ALso, we're donig a variation on homeschooling which I heartily recommend - correspondence. I don't do the spadework, someone else does. All I do, is supervise. If he has a problem with a lesson or isn't working fast enough in a subject, it's time to talk to the teacher.</p><p></p><p>A problem we've had with difficult child 3, is his increasing tendency to use his online time NOT doing schoolwork but instead trawlnig the net looking for games etc. Today I finally laid down the law - if I catch him NOT doing schoolwork on the computer during school hours, he is banned from the Wii for the next 24 hours. I can easily check his history, and if the history file is deleted - then again, the ban comes into being, automatically. he spends a lot of his day on the computer and is increasingly having nothing to show for it.</p><p></p><p>After I told him this today, he said he was too upset to work. I left it at that, told him that the work was accumulating regardless and he had better get on with it.</p><p></p><p>Another thing we do (which is how I got him working again) - I let him off the bulk of his Maths problems because really, he does know the work. So I HAVE to assess his worksheets and mark off the problems for him to do, so he knows he can leave the rest (unless he is struggling). BY sitting with him when he was doing his Maths (which is NOT online) he saw that I was trying to help him make fast progress, which made him feel better about me and my strict ban. He worked well for the rest of the day.</p><p></p><p>Wish me luck for tomorrow - it will be another big break in our routine. But it's the school's fault, this time, so they have to help me out.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 270058, member: 1991"] You need to be able to put your own life on hold, to homeschool. You need to feel relaxed about this too, not resentful (which is understandable, to feel that way). I just keep telling myself that I am investing my current time in his future. ALso, we're donig a variation on homeschooling which I heartily recommend - correspondence. I don't do the spadework, someone else does. All I do, is supervise. If he has a problem with a lesson or isn't working fast enough in a subject, it's time to talk to the teacher. A problem we've had with difficult child 3, is his increasing tendency to use his online time NOT doing schoolwork but instead trawlnig the net looking for games etc. Today I finally laid down the law - if I catch him NOT doing schoolwork on the computer during school hours, he is banned from the Wii for the next 24 hours. I can easily check his history, and if the history file is deleted - then again, the ban comes into being, automatically. he spends a lot of his day on the computer and is increasingly having nothing to show for it. After I told him this today, he said he was too upset to work. I left it at that, told him that the work was accumulating regardless and he had better get on with it. Another thing we do (which is how I got him working again) - I let him off the bulk of his Maths problems because really, he does know the work. So I HAVE to assess his worksheets and mark off the problems for him to do, so he knows he can leave the rest (unless he is struggling). BY sitting with him when he was doing his Maths (which is NOT online) he saw that I was trying to help him make fast progress, which made him feel better about me and my strict ban. He worked well for the rest of the day. Wish me luck for tomorrow - it will be another big break in our routine. But it's the school's fault, this time, so they have to help me out. Marg [/QUOTE]
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